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The Getty Conservation Institute's first field project focused
on the 3,200-year-old tomb of Queen Nefertari in the Valley of the
Queens, near Luxor, Egypt. In collaboration with the Egyptian Antiquities
Organization, a multidisciplinary, international group of experts
conducted an intensive six-year campaign—beginning in 1986—which
included condition assessment, analysis, emergency treatment, and
conservation of the extraordinary wall paintings in the tomb. Training
for conservators from Egypt and other countries was part of the
project.
One objective of the conservation effort was to maintain the site's
historical integrity; therefore treatment of the wall paintings
was limited to consolidation and cleaning. The diagnostic methodology
developed during the project was one that can be applied to wall
paintings at other sites.
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- Neville Agnew and Shin Maekawa, "Preserving Nefertari's
Legacy," in Scientific American, 281, no. 4 (Oct 1999): 74-79.
- Shin Maekawa and Frank Preusser, "Environmental Monitoring at
the Tomb of Nefertari," Preprints of 10th Triennial Meeting of
ICOM C.C., Washington, D.C., 22-27 August 1993, 616-23
- Shin Maekawa, Zhan Yongjun, Wang Baoyi, Fu Wenli and Xue Ping,
"Climate and Micro-Climate at the Mogao Grottes," Postprint of
International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of
Cultural Property, Conservation of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and
the Related Studies, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural
Properties (1997): 53-82.
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